Job Summary : The Service Desk Specialist is the first point of contact for all IT questions within the company. The Service Desk Specialist advises and supports employees with IT related issues as service requests, incidents, problems and changes. The IT Specialist also deals directly with vendors on hardware warranty/repair and telecom issues.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
- Communicate with different departments and liaise between end user and IT colleagues.
- Register and process the tickets within the Darling Ingredients IT Service Management Tool (ITSM) following agreed (ITIL) processes and standard procedures.
- Recognize incidents patterns and drive root cause analysis and corrective action completion to help eliminate disruption of services.
- Create and update work instructions, processes, guidelines & knowledge base articles.
- Support, coach and train end users as well as IT colleagues.
- Install and deliver IT hardware, repair equipment and maintain inventory of spares.
- Linking pin to specialists at 2nd level support.
- All other duties as assigned by management.
- 2+ years' experience supporting IT users, including desktop and laptop systems (Windows 11,Office 365, network setup of workstations), software applications and other network related service.
- Follows all food safety procedures and practices to promote our food safety culture.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Two-year degree in Computer Science OR equivalent work experience required.
- 3+ years' experience administering various IT systems, including desktop and laptop systems (Windows 7; Windows XP, Microsoft Office, anti-virus, network setup of workstations), software applications and other network related serviceTwo-year Service Desk experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field preferred.
- CompuTIA A+ certification.
- Work well with others in a virtual team environment.
- Highly organized; superior time management skills.
- Exceptional communication skills both written and oral; good customer service skills.
- Self-motivated; self-starter.
- Able to think within well-defined somewhat diversified procedures with many precedents covering most situations and/or readily available assistance. Situations require solution by the discriminating choice between known alternative or require the identification of issues, the application of judgement and the selections of solutions within the area of expertise and acquired knowledge.
- Experienced working with standardized practices and procedures, general work instructions and supervision of progress and results.
Physical Demands: Frequently required to sit, talk and hear. Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Vision requirements may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: Occasionally exposed to cold, heat, wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, chemicals, outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
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